Wild Atlantic Lodge- Ballyvaughan

There’s a few things I’ve noticed since I moved back down to the Burren. One is that everything starts with “Wild Atlantic……”Wild Atlantic Way, Wild Atlantic Walking tours, Wild Atlantic tours and the list goes on and on and most recently it’s been the Wild Atlantic Lodge in Ballyvaughan. Back in my day it was called Logues. What was wrong with Logues? Nothing, it just didn’t have the ring to it that Wild Atlantic Lodge has, or as someone pointed out WAL.

Now that that rant is over, I did decide to dine there the other night when doing an interview for my research. As it turns out, they got a lovely new dining room and when I say lovely, I mean it’s lovely. Totally different to the bar side of the venue but super new and it still has that clean new look about it. A big shout out here to Jamie and the staff who are legends.

This picture does the food no justice. It was actually delicious.

The menu has LOADS of choice but I chose the lasagne since I hadn’t had it in so long. It didn’t come like lasagne normally does, it came out looking better, like someone had put a lot of time and effort into making it from scratch. I scraped the plate and then started in to the salad that came with it. Deceptively delicious is what it was. We tried to figure out the dressing but couldn’t, my best guess was some kind or orange dressing but whatever it was, it was brilliant. I skipped dessert in favour of tea and the damage for 2 main meals, a drink and the tea was only about 30 euro so pretty good.

It is a popular place so my advice is to go there early if you want to eat. I’ll be like a bad smell there during the summer turning up whenever I don’t feel like cooking at home!